I think the saying is “April showers bring May flowers” or something like that. Even though when it comes to the British Isles I think the rainy period lasts more than a month, it’s more like all year. Anyway, the Marianne North Gallery of Botanic Art in Kew Gardens has...
Siberia is a lonely place. One woman in the far away remote village of Kamarchaga, located in the Siberian Taiga, has found a very entertaining hobby to help pass the time. Russian pensioner Olga Kostina has decorated her wooden home with over 30,000 plastic bottle caps. Over several years she...
Tomorrow might be American Independence Day, but let’s not forget that other countries celebrate their freedoms too. Maybe not with hot dogs and beer and fireworks and loud, drunk people but still…freedom isn’t always annoying-free. Uh…can you tell it is my least favorite holiday? One country we have not yet...
Thinking of a friend who is in Japan right now. A very long time ago this girl’s email address was hellokittywaffles. Don’t ask me why…we are weird people. As a matter of fact, when the earthquake hit Japan she was not shopping for Hello Kitty items but visiting a shrine....
Shangri-La Stone Village, Prospect Hill, North Carolina. Henry L. Warren was a retired tobacco farmer in 1968 when he began building leprechaun-size buildings in his side yard. He called it Shangri-La, and by the time he died nine years later (at age 84) the miniature town had 27 structures. Henry...
If you’ve read this blog long enough, then you probably already know I have a thing for hoarders. I used to work for one (that didn’t work out so well) and have a family member (or two) whose baby toe is slightly keeping them out of the deep end of...
It looks like the Red Telephone Box Museum, Musée-Placard d’Erik Satie, Museum of Drawers, and Edgar’s Closet now have some competition for the “World’s Tiniest Museum” title. Located in Somerville, the gallery for Mµseum (the funny-looking “u” is a play on the Greek letter, which basically means “micro”)— also called...
Yesterday’s alien abduction post went over like a lead balloon, so let me redeem my sins with a visit to Salvation Mountain. Located on a hill north of Slab City, California, just several miles from the Salton Sea, this art installation was created by local resident Leonard Knight, who found...
It took four years but “U.S. artist Chris Burden has created a dizzying urban trip with his kinetic sculpture ‘Metropolis II’, composed of plastic roadways, toy train tracks, erector sets, legos and blocks. More than a thousand miniature toy cars zip through the model city at 230-scale miles per hour....
Because I’m a huge dork, I’m currently reading (for fun) King, Kaiser, Tsar so let’s just say I’ve got Russia on my mind. And what a surprise it was for me to learn that a museum dedicated to the religious artworks of the Eastern Orthodox Church exists in the United...
